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Castlevania Netflix: First trailer released for TV series adaption of Nintendo's vampire-hunting video game

NETFLIX have adapted a classic Nintendo game into a TV series.

By Hanna Flint

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Netflix have adapted a number of films and books into original TV shows and now they're doing the same for a classic Nintendo video game.

Castlevania (known in Japanese as Akumajō Dracula) was a dark fantasy video game, developed by Konami, released in 1986.

There were plans to adapt the adventure-fantasy game into a live-action film in 2005, with Paul W. S. Anderson on board to direct, but the project was officially cancelled in 2009.

Castlevania is the new Netflix series based on the video game of the same name [Netflix]

Here's everything you need to know about the new show...

What's it about?

Inspired by the classic video game series, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, Simon Belmont, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself.

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The series follows the last surviving member of a vampire hunter clan as he tries to destroy Dracula [Netflix]

The animated series is meant to be super violent and has been compared to Game of Thrones, so expect a lot of blood.

Who's behind the series?

The animated series is from Frederator Studios (known for Adventure Time), a Wow! Unlimited Media company, written by best-selling author and comic book icon Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Iron Man) and executive produced by Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar (The Grey, Dredd).